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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Woolwich 1899
The eleventh annual report of the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the District of Woolwich for the year 1899
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TABLE X,.
Analysis of Mortality Statistics in Woolwich and other Sanitary Districts of the Metropolis during the year 1899.
| Sanitary Areas. | Estimated population in the middle of 1899. | Annual rate per 1000 persons living of Infectious Diseases Notified. | Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases. * | Deaths from all causes. | Death-rate per 1000 living. | Deaths of Infants under one year to 1000 births. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping-cough. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Other continued Fevers. | Diarrhoea. | Total. | Annual late per 1000 persons living. | ||||||
| WOOLWICH | 41542 | 8.6 | ... | 13 | 4 | 21 | 12 | ... | 6 | ... | 47 | 103 | 2.44 | 902 | 21.0 | 167 |
| West Districts. | ||||||||||||||||
| Paddington | 128794 | 6.6 | ... | 6 | 5 | 29 | 43 | ... | 9 | ... | 106 | 198 | 1.55 | 2065 | 16.1 | 151 |
| Kensington | 172899 | 6.1 | ... | 24 | 10 | 43 | 61 | ... | 24 | ... | 101 | 263 | 1.53 | 3.54 | 17.7 | 180 |
| Hammersmith | 108785 | 8.0 | ... | 22 | 13 | 25 | 46 | ... | 23 | ... | 101 | 230 | 2.11 | 2058 | 19.0 | 183 |
| Fulham | 130720 | 12.9 | ... | 68 | 33 | 59 | 54 | ... | 25 | ... | 183 | 423 | 3.23 | 25.7 | 19.2 | 189 |
| Chelsea | 96721 | 7.1 | ... | 18 | 8 | 26 | 71 | ... | 18 | ... | 64 | 205 | 2.13 | 1893 | 19.6 | 164 |
| St. George Hanover Square | 80876 | 5.1 | ... | 17 | 7 | 12 | 14 | ... | 9 | ... | 29 | 88 | 1.09 | 1142 | 14.2 | 129 |
| Westminster | 52117 | 7.7 | ... | 17 | 5 | 10 | 5 | ... | 9 | ... | 39 | 85 | 1.64 | 1159 | 22.3 | 207 |
| St. T^mes Westminster | 21827 | 6.5 | ... | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | ... | 3 | ... | 8 | 34 | 1.12 | 389 | 17.9 | 142 |
| North Districts. | ||||||||||||||||
| Marylebone | 140139 | 6.6 | 1 | 24 | 15 | 36 | 34 | ... | 26 | ... | 100 | 236 | 1.70 | 2596 | 18.6 | 124 |
| Hampstead | 80252 | 6.'3 | ... | 22 | 6 | 15 | 11 | ... | 4 | ... | 35 | 93 | 1.16 | 926 | 11.6 | 129 |
| St. Pancras | 244548 | 8.2 | ... | 102 | 25 | 111 | 142 | ... | 42 | ... | 231 | 653 | 2.69 | 4958 | 20.3 | 178 |
| Islington | 348385 | 8.5 | ... | 164 | 34 | 126 | 170 | ... | 48 | ... | 256 | 798 | 2.30 | 6299 | 18.1 | 160 |
| Stoke Newington | 35187 | 7.6 | ... | 10 | 3 | 6 | 4 | ... | 5 | ... | 19 | 47 | 1.33 | 446 | 12.7 | 103 |
| Hackney | 222571 | 103 | ... | 110 | 16 | 86 | 48 | ... | 35 | ... | 194 | 422 | 2.22 | 3853 | 16.9 | 153 |
| Central Districts. | ||||||||||||||||
| St. Giles | 37196 | 5.0 | ... | 16 | ... | 5 | 1 | ... | 4 | ... | 26 | 52 | 1.40 | 739 | 19.9 | 112 |
| St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 12142 | 5.4 | ... | 5 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 6 | 13 | 1.07 | 189 | 15.6 | 203 |
| Strand | 23016 | 5.3 | ... | 5 | 1 | 7 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 17 | 30 | 1.30 | 521 | 22.7 | 189 |
| Holborn | 29621 | 8.9 | ... | 11 | 3 | 6 | 13 | ... | 7 | ... | 26 | 66 | 2.23 | 737 | 24.9 | 226 |
| Clerkenwell | 66068 | 10.5 | ... | 36 | 13 | 28 | 30 | ... | 23 | ... | 70 | 200 | 3.04 | 1492 | 22.6 | 193 |
| St. Luke | 40868 | 9.0 | ... | 26 | 8 | 10 | 14 | ... | 6 | ... | 59 | 123 | 3.03 | 1159 | 28.4 | 149 |
| City of London | 27686 | 8.6 | ... | 4 | 1 | 7 | 5 | ... | 12 | ... | 9 | 38 | 1.36 | 599 | 21.Q | 14.4 |
*See footnote page 3.